It is a French word (pronounced mua) and means me. Preceded by avec (avec moi, pronounced avec mua), it means to me. It is the acronym in English of Ministry of interior (Ministry of the Interior in Saudi Arabia). MOI is the name of a company specializing in furniture from Baltimore in the United States. Moi is also the name of a magazine of the Mexican Emelina Martha Debayle Alaniz (born in Nicaragua), published beginning in 2014.